Senior Automation Engineer

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Senior Automation Engineer at Fidelity developing end-to-end quality processes for agile delivery teams. Leading test automation initiatives for mobile, web, and API applications while mentoring team members.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeDurham • North Carolina, Utah • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidiOSSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and implement comprehensive end-to-end quality processes for an engineering team dedicated to achieving full test automation, eliminating the need for separate QA.
Leverage the expertise of our Quality Center of Excellence (CoE) to embed a culture of quality within software engineering teams, driving the development of Fidelity’s mobile, web, and API experiences.
Champion best practices, including automation technology, test pyramid health, mobile testing strategies, AI-driven testing solutions, release management, SDLC ways of work, and Definition of Done.
Take ownership of team outcomes and success metrics, including test coverage, automation levels, change failure rate, and pipeline stability.
Mentor and collaborate with team and project leads to develop and refine test strategy, scope, and mobile testing frameworks.
Monitor, maintain, and optimize test suites and CI/CD pipelines to ensure a balance between reliability, test coverage, and developer productivity.
Explore and implement AI/ML-driven testing tools and techniques to enhance test efficiency, defect detection, and overall quality assurance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional SDET experience (Software Development Engineer in Test), with a strong focus on writing code for test automation.
Proven experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks for native iOS and native Android (bonus points for web and API applications).
Familiarity with AI/ML-driven testing tools and techniques, with a focus on improving test efficiency and defect detection.
Hands-on experience managing and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, test automation tools and frameworks, feature-toggle management tools, and test environments.
Demonstrated success working on software engineering teams that own and implement their own quality practices, without reliance on separate QA teams.
Strong software engineering background or exposure, with the ability to read, write, and debug Unit, Integration, and End-to-End test code.
Expertise in maintaining and optimizing automated functional test suites to ensure a balance between reliability, test coverage, and developer productivity.
Proficiency in creating and maintaining test data and managing vendor relationships for testing tools and services.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Professional development opportunities
Health insurance

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Hard Skills & Tools

test automationtest automation frameworksmobile testingAI-driven testingCI/CD pipelinesUnit testingIntegration testingEnd-to-End testingtest data managementdefect detection

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationownershipcommunicationleadership